Fair Financial
Fair Financial, purchased in 2022 by Shift
Santa Monica, CA
Staff Engineer/Data Engineer
- Led Flask/Python/Postgres credit, affordability & fraud decision service and related vendor integration microservices
- Managed credit rules engine versioning and deployment of XGBoost pricing models in sync with search service updates
- Architected inventory ETL and search (Elasticsearch) microservices with AWS SQS/SNS messaging system and Redis
- Built E2E microservice test service with custom-built OpenTelemetry tracing libraries
- Planned and scoped tickets for tasks, features, and projects, for self and junior team members
- Built Docker/Kubernetes services & jobs with autoscaling, plus monitoring and alerting with OpenTelemetry
- Created extensive product, user, and engineering documentation with gitbooks, wikis, and confluence
- Gave talks on Python, Datadog usage, and gRPC & Protobufs